Article 8 Transmission of documents

Judicial documents shall be transmitted directly and as quickly as possible between the transmitting and receiving agencies.

The document to be transmitted shall be accompanied by a request drawn up using form A in Annex I. The form shall be completed in the official language of the Member State addressed or, if there are several official languages in that Member State, in the official language or one of the official languages of the place where service is to be effected, or in another language which that Member State has indicated it will accept.

Each Member State shall communicate to the Commission any official language of the Union other than its own in which the form may be completed.

Documents that are transmitted under this Regulation shall be exempt from requirements of legalisation or any equivalent formality.

Where the transmitting agency requests that a copy of the document sent in paper format in accordance with Article 5(4) be returned together with the certificate referred to in Article 14, it shall send that document in duplicate.